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How Sleek Grew

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How did Sleek grow?

Summary of the sourced claims below

Sleek's growth was primarily organic, driven by word of mouth and content posted on social media platforms such as X and Reddit. They also focused on SEO strategies, including ranking on large language models (LLMs), to attract traffic.

Channels

5 channels · grouped by how Sleek grows
  • SEO

    · 1 mention
    “We're working on SEO and, you know, LLM SEO, I always forget the name, but essentially, you know, ranking on LLMs.”
    high
  • Word of mouth

    · 1 mention
    “so far, a lot of the growth was organic. So we're starting to, you know, differentiate a little bit because, you know, X is nice. Word of mouth is nice, but I personally believe you can only take it so far and like, still you got to try a lot of things.”
    high
  • Organic social media

    · 1 mention
    “A lot of our growth came from X, where that's where we first launched the tool. And since launch, it went pretty well. I think people resonated with it a lot. ... And then, yeah, we were able to keep it while, you know, posting a lot of content on X, on platforms like Reddit as well.”
    high
  • Reddit

    · 1 mention
    “posting a lot of content on X, on platforms like Reddit as well.”
    high
  • Brand Videos

    · 1 mention
    “And we had some people, you know, making videos about Sleek on Instagram, TikTok.”
    medium

How 3,095 businesses grow

Of businesses with mapped growth channels, the share using each — Sleek’s highlighted.
  • Referral/Word-of-mouth
    66% ◀
  • Social media
    64% ◀
  • Search/SEO
    58% ◀
  • Email
    48%
  • Community
    37% ◀
  • Content/Inbound
    35% ◀
  • Partnerships
    33%
  • Events
    25%
  • Paid ads
    24%
  • Outbound/Sales
    19%
  • Press/PR
    18%
  • Marketplaces/App stores
    12%
  • Podcasting
    4%
  • Building in public
    3%